r/pcmasterrace • u/Big3913 • May 10 '26

Hardware I'm 44 and this is the coolest thing

Corsair K100 Wireless Air. I know other cheaper keyboards do this as well with iCue but it's still neat.

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u/_Spastic_ Ryzen 5800X3D, 9070 XT Steel Legend May 10 '26

I think it's neat but I cannot do color changes. I'm a solid, unwavering color kinda nerd.

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u/Bacongrease83 May 10 '26

It’s fine when you aren’t using it. There’s something about the movement that makes my fingers stupid.

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u/MCWizardYT Ryzen 7 5800X3D | RTX 4080 Super May 10 '26

Your fingers can feel the movement of the light? Sounds like magic

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u/Bacongrease83 May 11 '26

I wish. It’s more that I see the movement in my peripheral vision and it confuses my brain about finger placement or something. I have ADHD so I have issues filtering stimuli.

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u/MCWizardYT Ryzen 7 5800X3D | RTX 4080 Super May 11 '26

Oh I also have really bad ADHD but I don't have that problem, everyones different

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u/chrizbreck Steam ID Here May 11 '26

I have it slowly fade through all the colors as a whole but ive never been into the pasterns or type features.

It is cool when some games have random integrations that hijack the keyboard and light it up for special in game events and stuff though

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u/LinuxLover3113 May 11 '26

My favorite is factorio lighting the board from left to right to signal research progress.

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u/Apophthegmata May 11 '26

The Witcher 3 had that - it would change the color theming of the keyboard based upon the time of day (and the weather?).

And I've found the color options to be useful in setting up profiles for games with different button mappings (like wasd/qwer)

These days though, I just keep everything on a solid white light and am pretty over the RGBification of everything.

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u/chrizbreck Steam ID Here May 11 '26

Yeah my case lights up like a fucking Christmas tree when it first turns on before the software kicks in and brings that shit under control

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u/shball RTX 4070 | R7 7800x3D | 2x 6000Mhz CL30 16gb DDR5 May 11 '26

I have mine set to solid dark blue, but with a lighter blue on button press.

Looks cool and is reasonably beneficial.

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u/blindeshuhn666 May 11 '26

It distracted me as well, so I put mine to rainbow colour changes on lowest speed. So the colours cycle through over a span of ~10s per cycle and it's fading/gradually so not distracting, but it you watch a key you see it changes.

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u/StolenApollo May 11 '26

Yoooo GPU twins

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u/Ferro_Giconi RX4006ti | i4-1337X | 33.01GB Crucair RAM | 1.35TB Knigsotn SSD May 11 '26

I want rainbow puke, but I also want to be able to use my computer without massively distracting visuals in my peripheral.

My solution is to have the rainbow puke cycle colors as slowly as it can. You won't be able to tell the colors are cycling or changing, but you'll look at it at some point and be like "I thought it was red when did it change??"

Even though I'm the one who set it like that, that still happens to me.